The station in The Dancing Men where Holmes and Watson, arriving from London, find out from the station master that Hilton Cubitt has been shot dead and his wife’s life “is despaired of”.
All The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The Adventure of the Dancing Men”, story is set at the end of the summer of 1898 and was published in The Strand Magazine in December 1903. The newly married Mr Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe manor consults Holmes about coded messages in the form of dancing men that are being left outside his house and which are terrifying his wife Elsie This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes’ client dies after seeking his help. It is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked it third in his list of his twelve favourite Holmes stories.
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WALCOTT HOUSE
A possible candidate for Ridling Thorpe Manor the ancestral home of Hilton Cubitt in The Dancing Men.
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BACTON GRANGE
A possible candidate for Ridling Thorpe Manor the ancestral home of Hilton Cubitt in The Dancing Men.
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EBRIDGE MILL
Possibly the location of “Elridge” where Abe Slaney stays to be close to Elsie at Ridling Thorpe Manor in The Dancing Men
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HONING HALL
The ancestral home of the Cubitt family and therefore a possible candidate for Ridling Thorpe Manor the ancestral home of Hilton Cubitt in The Dancing Men
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HAPPISBURGH HILL HOUSE HOTEL, HAPPISBURGH
Stayed in by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle in May 1903, where he drafted the Sherlock Holmes story “The Dancing Men” and was given the idea for the pictogram code.